In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …

elasticity and multiple asymmetric regions, in which trade integration induces wage and productivity changes. Using Canada … Canada-US border on regional market aggregates such as wages, productivity, markups, the mass of varieties produced and … productivity. Given the estimated parameter values, we first decompose border effects into a pure border effect, relative and …